Trying to find space for a sister, I called a certain downtown masjid to follow up with one of its admins and a bizarre conversation happened. He mentioned there might be a sister able to help and he asked if he should pass on my number or get the sisters number from me. Heres the convo: Fauzia: where is the sisster from? Admin: why? Fauzia: the sister Im helping is from France and speaks English with a somewhat heavy accent. So I wanted to make sure there would be no language barriers. The next thing I heard was: Admin: we Somalis are from Arabia. Fauzia: Im Somali from Kenya Admin: yes you are but we Somalis are from the Gulf. Fauzia: I know there are Somalis from the Gulf who were born and are living there. Admin: no thats not what Im talking about. All Somalis are from Arabia. Fauzia: Somalis are from Somalia which is in Africa. Admin: No! thats just a continent! (in a strange menacing whisper he said we are from the Gulf dont say this again and make this mistake again or something to that effect. I agreed though highly tickled and puzzled so I offered my help to volunteer there and said I would wait for the sister to call and we said salaams and that was that. 30 mins later I called several times to no response.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:06:08 +0000
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